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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeroen Meijer <jjgmeijer@hotmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: possible bug in autocompletion
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:43:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120919174336.GA11699@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s2X5-BUyLtkTqGMa6w5K6uT25YLEp+Q2TdVR_qCObOpeA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 07:08:09PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> 
> > --- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
> > +++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
> > @@ -261,7 +261,12 @@ __gitcomp ()
> >  __gitcomp_nl ()
> >  {
> >         local IFS=$'\n'
> > -       COMPREPLY=($(compgen -P "${2-}" -S "${4- }" -W "$1" -- "${3-$cur}"))
> > +       local words=$1
> > +       words=${words//\\/\\\\}
> > +       words=${words//\$/\\\$}
> > +       words=${words//\'/\\\'}
> > +       words=${words//\"/\\\"}
> > +       COMPREPLY=($(compgen -P "${2-}" -S "${4- }" -W "$words" -- "${3-$cur}"))
> >  }
> 
> What about something like this?
> 
> local words
> printf -v words "%q" "$w"
> COMPREPLY=($(compgen -P "${2-}" -S "${4- }" -W "$words" -- "${3-$cur}"))

Thanks, I didn't know about bash's internal printf magic. That is a much
more elegant solution.

Care to wrap it up in a patch?

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-19 17:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-17  9:10 possible bug in autocompletion Jeroen Meijer
2012-07-17 12:12 ` Jeff King
2012-09-19 17:08   ` Felipe Contreras
2012-09-19 17:43     ` Jeff King [this message]
2012-09-19 18:16       ` Felipe Contreras
2012-09-19 18:23         ` Felipe Contreras
2012-09-19 19:55           ` Jeff King
2012-09-19 23:08             ` Felipe Contreras
2012-09-19 23:43               ` Jeff King
2012-09-19 17:58     ` Junio C Hamano

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